Name
: Amadou BOCOUM
Date of Birth: 13 October 1954
AREAS
OF COMPETENCE
Research - Development, Formulation/Evaluation and
implementation of development projects at grassroots
level, Rural Credit, Drafting of poverty alleviation
policies and programmes
LANGUAGES
Pulaar
French
English
Wolof
FIELD EXPERIENCE
Senegal, France, Central African Republic, Chad,
Liberia, Guinea-Conakry, Guinea-Bissau, Sao-Tome
& Principe, Malawi, Madagascar, United States
& India.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
India : Since February 2004: Ambassador of Senegal
to India
USA
: Consul General of Senegal in New York, USA.
Madagascar:
-Drafting of the UNDP Support Paper for the National
Program on the fight against poverty and contribution
to the implementation on the ground of the Institutional
Operations framework of the program.
-Technical Adviser (UNDP/UNOPS) of the Poverty alleviation
and Promotion of sustainable livelihood Approach.
Guinea-Conakry:
- Drafting of the (UNDP/UNOPS) Support Program for
grassroots initiatives
- Finalization (phase 2) of the National sustainable
Human Development Program of the Republic of Guinea
on behalf of ILO.
- Finalization (phase 1) of the National sustainable
Human Development Program of the Republic of Guinea,
on behalf of UNESCO
Ivory
Cost
Sao
Tomé et Principe:
- Preparation and Evaluation of the (ADB) Poverty
Alleviation Project
Tchad
- Evaluation of the (ADB) Poverty Alleviation Project
and Development of Women activities in the N’Djamena
region
- Identification of a Grassroots Development Program
in Western and Southern Chad, on behalf of UNDP
Central
African Republic
- Program Officer of the UNDP and UNCDF (United
Nations Capital Development Fund).
- Technical Advisor for UNDP/UNCDF/ADB/DDSMS projects
« Support to Village Self Help Development
» and « Social Scope for Social Adjustment
and Development.
- Consultant in Methodological support for the (UNDP/DDSMS)
project “Self Help Village Development”
Washington,
USA
Participation at the Round Table organized by the
World Bank on Small Mines at Washington D.C
Liberia:
- Reorientation of the (UNDP/DDSMS) project "
Self help village development " in South Eastern
Liberia.
- Formulation of the (UNDP/DDSMS) program "Reconstruction
and Support for Resettlement of Displaced People"
Benin
- Evaluation and reorientation of the Grassroots
Support Initiative Fund
France:
- CLONG/AFVP. Main coordinator of the European Volunteers
Development Program (EVD)
- AFVP.(French Association of Volunteers of Progress),
Presenter of the ‘Discovery of Surroundings’
module, within the framework of initial training
CIFACE.( Training and Information Centre for Adults
in National Service Abroad), Presenter within the
framework of training of adults in National Service
about to leave for Africa and the Maghreb.
- AFVP Consultant (French Association of Volunteers
of Progress) for:
Study of the commercialization network of the market
garden produce in the Matam department
Evaluation of the Gouriki-Koliabé market
garden produce project at Matam, Senegal
- AFTAM. (Association for the Training of African
and Malagasy Workers), Literacy programme for immigrant
African and Maghreb workers
- Editions NUBIA. Participation in the drafting
of the Haal-Pulaar dictionary, by writing of two
articles (Agriculture and Livestock farming and
on iron trade in the Fuuta region). These two articles
were published by Editions NUBIA, 50 Bd Port Royal,
Paris 14, in 1992.
Sénégal:
- Operations Officer at the African Fishing Company
(COMAPECHE) at Kayar.
- Researcher of the Leiden University (Holland)-IFAN
(Basic Institute for Black Africa) project, for
the assessment of the creditworthiness of the Dakar
suburb households, with a view to establish “Rehabilitated
Plots ".
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
DESS. (Post Graduate Degree)
Institute of Economic and Social Studies, Université
de Paris I Panthéon. Sorbonne.
Major : Agricultural Development 1984
Master’s Degree in Sociology Université
Paris VIII- Vincennes. 1983
Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology Université
Paris VIII- Vincennes. 1981.
